Worms for Wise

  I managed to get a few more worms done before I brought them to the Church knitting group to be taken to Wise, VA.  I wish I had managed to get a few more done, but there is always next year.

  These are all the ones I have saved and will be going.  I think there are around 230 worms.  Everyone at knitting was impressed.  Jenelle said my timing was pretty good because these would make good stocking stuffers for Christmas.

  I'm starting to think this project is cursed.  According to my row count, I've done 24 rows of this project and currently only have 8 rows of ribbing to show for it.  I decided I should start making a list to keep track of everything I had to deal with.

  Here is a list of the things that have gone wrong so far:

• Twisted cast on ~ frogged
• Wasn't sure I wanted to make the size I cast on for ~ frogged
• Cast on was too tight ~ frogged
• Forgot to change to larger needles after ribbing ~ back to ribbing
• Somehow started working on my project inside out when the ribbing has a clear "right" and "wrong" side ~ back to ribbing
• Decided to change charts mid-eye for one section ~ ignored

   I think I might still be slightly off on my gauge, but I think it will be fine once I block it.  It's also interesting to see how my tension is slightly different when I hold the yarn in my right hand versus my left.  I don't think I've ever noticed it before.

One From the Vault

  I was doing some reorganizing of the yarn overflow area and found this scarf.  I had started it back in college and had made the cable needlessly complicated.  I had decided that it needed a purl between the knit sections of the cable.  I had set it aside to get finished by someone else, but when I took another look at it, I saw that it really only needed the other end done in seed stitch.  Six rows later I had it bound off.  It's the really old Super Saver, so it isn't very soft.  I tried soaking it in conditioner and water, and that really helped a lot.

Pattern: Hurricane Hat by Andrea Goutier - Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in Shaded Dusk - Needle: US 8

  Since my mom has been telling so many people about how easy the Hurricane hat is, I decided to make another one.  I technically didn't have enough yarn, but it fits my head, so I figure that's good enough.  It also got a conditioner bath to help soften it up.

 

Pattern: Swirl Hat by Mandie Harrington - Yarn: Yarn Bee Soft Secret in Navy - Needle: US 6

  I had grabbed this yarn to make the Hurricane Hat with but needed to find a new project for it since I had used the ancient Super Saver.  I looked up the yarn on Ravelry, looked at project ideas, and this one was already in my queue.

  To get a fabric I liked, I had to go up to a size 6 needle.  For some reason it looked like it was going to come out as a giant hat with the largest size, so I restarted with the number of stitches for a 12m-2y.  I'm somehow now getting gauge, so I could have possibly been fine before, but it just looked so big when I was casting on the first time.  The yarn is so soft, like it claims.

  I looked through the project pages and liked the look of the hat when you couldn't see the holes from the yarn-overs.  So I knitted the yarn-overs through the back loop to close them up some.

  I have an idea to make a variance of this where I keep twisting the yarn-overs, but to do a ssk instead of a k2tog.  It will make the solid section that is traveling one stitch narrower, but I think it could be fun.